Who dies in Deathly Hallows book?
Lord Voldemort
How can Voldemort talk to snakes?
They called Slytherin himself Serpent-tongue. The ability to actually speak Parseltongue — not just imitate it as Ron Weasley did — is considered an attribute of a Dark Wizard, which is partly due to the fact that both Salazar Slytherin and Lord Voldemort possessed this ability.
Was Dumbledore a Parselmouth?
Albus Dumbledore is not a true Parselmouth, as he can understand Parseltongue, but cannot speak it. Because this is — once again — a very rare skill, theories abound as to why the Hogwarts headmaster was able to understand the language of snakes. Dumbledore learned Parseltongue from his ex-partner, Gellert Grindelwald.
Can Dumbledore kill basilisk?
Even if he couldn’t, he could have brought in a team of wizards to help eradicate the monster. His failure was that he didn’t discover there was a basilisk, not that he couldn’t kill it.
Why didn’t Dumbledore hear the basilisk?
for some reason the basilisk can only be heard at all by parselmouths. It’s not a normal snake after all it could be that this is part of the basilisk’s magical properties. Dumbledore is not a parselmouth so he can’t hear it at all.
Did Dumbledore know Harry could hear the basilisk?
During Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter is plagued by voices in the walls. Yet, Dumbledore did not hear the basilisk during the events of Chamber of Secrets. This implies that he did not know parseltongue before the Chamber of Secrets, but understood the language by the Half-blood Prince.
Did Dumbledore know the monster was a basilisk?
We don’t know if Dumbledore knew that the creature was a basilisk in the book. But since Dumbledore does know that Harry is a horcrux and he’s mysteriously the only one able to hear it…well, some conclusions might be drawn .
Did Hagrid know about the basilisk?
Hagrid didn’t know, he asked Aragog to tell him, but Aragog refused. His race were all in great fear of the Basilisk and as part of their nature/culture, they refused to ever speak of it.